Hi all, this seems to me like an incredibly simple ask, but with no clear instruction on how to achieve it.
My parents have an aging iPad 2 on 9.3.5 (I think). It's slow and clunky but has loads of photos (in albums too) that they want to save.
If I plug it into my Mac running Big Sur, I can go to photo app and "Import all" photos, but this only seems to bring over 800 odd photos. The iPad reports over 2000. Additionally, none of the ones in the albums come across, at least, not obviously, and the albums are not preserved in the photos app.
I've performed a "backup" too, just in case. I think the idea is not to remove the photos from the iPad. It will probably just get put into a drawer somewhere and forgotten about. However, the key here is moving the photos ideally to another tablet and hopefully retain that album formatting.
If I choose to use iCloud on the iPad, a message comes up saying something like it can't be sync'd with iTunes and iCloud and therefore 1000 photos are going to be removed, or something to that effect...
If I use my limited knowledge of MACos and iPad apps to Google a solution, I end up facing applications which require payment.
So, here I am, reaching out to the collective for assistance, if anyone has any suggestions or tips.
Other info, I have the "camera kit" which is two adapters for SD Card and USB, but these seem to only copy from those to the iPad...
Thanks
My parents have an aging iPad 2 on 9.3.5 (I think). It's slow and clunky but has loads of photos (in albums too) that they want to save.
If I plug it into my Mac running Big Sur, I can go to photo app and "Import all" photos, but this only seems to bring over 800 odd photos. The iPad reports over 2000. Additionally, none of the ones in the albums come across, at least, not obviously, and the albums are not preserved in the photos app.
I've performed a "backup" too, just in case. I think the idea is not to remove the photos from the iPad. It will probably just get put into a drawer somewhere and forgotten about. However, the key here is moving the photos ideally to another tablet and hopefully retain that album formatting.
If I choose to use iCloud on the iPad, a message comes up saying something like it can't be sync'd with iTunes and iCloud and therefore 1000 photos are going to be removed, or something to that effect...
If I use my limited knowledge of MACos and iPad apps to Google a solution, I end up facing applications which require payment.
So, here I am, reaching out to the collective for assistance, if anyone has any suggestions or tips.
Other info, I have the "camera kit" which is two adapters for SD Card and USB, but these seem to only copy from those to the iPad...
Thanks